Incumaa v. Ozmint’s Empirical Analysis
507 F.3d 281 · 2007
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably United States v. Hardy (2008), Rendelman v. Rouse (2009)
16 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1997E · 42 U.S.C. § 2000C
Relies on Friends of the Earth Incorporateds v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc · Singleton v. Wulff · City of Los Angeles v. Lyons · United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Powell v. McCormack
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once an inmate is removed from the environment in which he is subjected to the challenged policy or practice, absent a claim for damages, he no longer has a legally cognizable interest in a judicial decision on the merits of his claim. Any declaratory or injunctive relief ordered in the inmate’s favor in such situations would have no practical impact on the inmate’s rights and would not redress in any way the injury he originally asserted. And the [released] inmate has no further need for such declaratory or injunctive relief, for he is free of the policy or practice that provoked his lawsuit in the first place.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Townes v. Jarvis · Alvarez v. Hill“[A]s a general rule, a prisoner's transfer or release from a particular prison moots his claims for injunctive and declaratory relief with respect to his incarceration there.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“capable of repetition, yet evading review,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.